Liver and Know Your Onions

Scotland has long been used as an experimental base for legislation in both England and Wales. Licensing laws are no exception, and it should be noted that the all-day drinking laws which are now firmly established in England and Wales were pioneered in Scotland.

A&E units under siege from drunks The Scotsman

In the figures released yesterday by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, between 1996 and 2004 admissions with acute alcohol intoxication went up 40 per cent for men and 30 per cent for women. Emergency admissions linked to alcoholic liver disease soared by 73 per cent for men and 81 per cent for women, and admissions with chronic liver disease increased by 100% for both sexes

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